and it seemed like they were installed automaticaly, and when I rebooted a system popup recognized the mfc420ca by name and presented a list of other Brother printers to choose as device, but alas my printer was not there. So I tried installing all three from root with
"rpm -ihv --nodeps MFC420CNlpr-1.0.2-1.i386.rpm"

said "allready installed" went to system/printers and still not in list of printers. Tried to print from word processor -- no print.

Googled more and tried the "localhost:631" route and it seemed to install -- still no print.

Its not a USB problem, mouse and key drive work fine.

The printer is both usb and RJ-45, would a network install be easier?

Now I am at a loss as to what to do next. I need my printer so i can print flyers anouncing the date of the comming revoloution. (soon)

P.S. How the heck did Fedora geuss my username and password for my DSL service? As soon as I installed the system I did an imediate update and it connected and downloaded no questions asked. Impressive but spookey. :scratch:

Simon Bridge

05-29-2006 01:37 AM

Select the printer which looks closest to the one you've got.
I take it, it is this one: http://www.brother-usa.com/MFC/mfc_d...=MFC420CN.aspx ... I came close to getting one of these. It's really best thought of as a fax machine with addons to make it look like a printer/scanner. After looking it up I decided to avoid it.

The CUPS driver that (supposedly) works is HL-2070N

I've found the following:http://gentoo-wiki.com/Brother_MFC_420CN_Printer
... mostly gentoo specific instructions but with decent driver notes.
There's supposed to be something called: MFC420CN/CUPS or somesuch for you to use for printing, and another called MFC420CN/SANE for scanning.

seemed to be able to get his brother to work, why can't I? Booooo Hoooooo

Help, before my head gets to shiney, FunkyMonkeyPiE

Simon Bridge

05-29-2006 03:25 AM

Did you install lpd before you installed the cups wrapper?
Make sure, use rpm to remove the driver packages, then install them in the right order. It looks fussy, and if you mess up one step you're toast.

Personally, my opinion is to avoid these products from brother GPL or no. Sell it and buy a real printer.